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viduals thereof, and yet the U. S. Attorney and the Jury have not dared to introduce the subject to be investigated, because, they say witnesses who were present at that time and were forced into the bloody work, that their lives would be rendered insecure should they testify to the facts, but they say whenever the Government of the United States will guarantee their protection they will freely testify to all the facts. I am fully satisfied from my experience in that district for the last three years as a judicial officer of the Court, that this feeling of insecurity is well founded, and it will require a military force established in that district, say, at the City of Beaver, of at least five companies to render the political needs effective. "There are several indictments now in the hands of the U. S. Marshal, to execute upon felons which, he reports, he is unable to execute. Beaver City, where I hold my court, is two hundred and twenty miles south of Salt Lake. It is beautifully situated, well watered and healthy, and besides it is the diverging point leaving to Pioche, a hundred and twenty miles west, and to St. George, one hundred and ten miles south, and it is about one hundred miles southeast to Knob, the Gibraltar of Church felons, where there are one hundred and twenty men thoroughly armed, and where the leaders of said massacre have taken refuge. I I In addition to these considerations, a few miles south of Beaver City, the annual Indian raids upon settlements take place, therefore, a post at Beaver City would be ,a proper place to do most service. "I adjourned my last October term of Court after disposing of my civil docket, until the second Monday in May next, in order that all the facts and needs to the executions of the laws and protection of loyal citizens might be fully understood by the Government and by this military department. Whenever it is safe and the Government desires criminals punished, and will furnish the necessary support and means to protect them, the Court

viduals thereof, and yet the U. S. Attorney and the Jury have not dared to introduce the subject to be investigated, because, they say witnesses who were present at that time and were forced into the bloody work, that their lives would be rendered insecure should they testify to the facts, but they say whenever the Government of the United States will guarantee their protection they will freely testify to all the facts. I am fully satisfied from my experience in that district for the last three years as a judicial officer of the Court, that this feeling of insecurity is well founded, and it will require a military force established in that district, say, at the City of Beaver, of at least five companies to render the political needs effective. "There are several indictments now in the hands of the U. S. Marshal, to execute upon felons which, he reports, he is unable to execute. Beaver City, where I hold my court, is two hundred and twenty miles south of Salt Lake. It is beautifully situated, well watered and healthy, and besides it is the diverging point leaving to Pioche, a hundred and twenty miles west, and to St. George, one hundred and ten miles south, and it is about one hundred miles southeast to Knob, the Gibraltar of Church felons, where there are one hundred and twenty men thoroughly armed, and where the leaders of said massacre have taken refuge. I I In addition to these considerations, a few miles south of Beaver City, the annual Indian raids upon settlements take place, therefore, a post at Beaver City would be ,a proper place to do most service. "I adjourned my last October term of Court after disposing of my civil docket, until the second Monday in May next, in order that all the facts and needs to the executions of the laws and protection of loyal citizens might be fully understood by the Government and by this military department. Whenever it is safe and the Government desires criminals punished, and will furnish the necessary support and means to protect them, the Court